Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. O-5)

Marginal note:Communicating special operational information

• 17 (1) Every person commits an offence who, intentionally and without lawful authority, communicates special operational information to a foreign entity or to a terrorist group if the person believes, or is reckless as to whether, the information is special operational information.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.